To the rule, George F. Will is a brilliant man, but his recent musing doesn’t make sense (“So Let’s Focus on Congress Instead,” PostScript, March 4).
Is there no “groundwork” we can lay, eight months before the final vote and five months before the convention, to help some candidate displace so ruinous a leader as the incumbent president?
Certainly, Will has done everything in his power to obliterate the groundwork under Newt Gingrich’s candidacy.
And how exactly do we accomplish this congressional electoral triumph by conceding the White House before we even have a candidate?
Elections are won by mobilizing passions and by optimistic determination.
Our wise and far-seeing commentator really must have patience with the dull Republican electorate whose energy he wishes to economize.
I fear he may confuse them.
Peter Nichols, Morristown, NJ
Will is Chicken Little, for he thinks the sky is falling and we will have four more years of President Obama.
But one must forgive him for, after all, he’s a Cubs fan.
Cheer up.
Just as the sun rises, so will the Right.
Gary Schwartz, Fort Lee, NJ
Porn problem
America’s young children, especially our little boys, have a problem (“Myth of Sex Addiction,” PostScript, David J. Ley, March 4).
The Internet has brought with it access to adult sites that are so explicit and damaging to young boys that sexual addiction is becoming as menacing as drug addiction.
These children are being exposed to an array of slime and filth that they are ill-prepared to deal with.
It impacts how they feel about and treat women, it leads to experimental and risk-taking behaviors and it damages lives to the extent that, at its essence, it is de-humanizing.
This is our new epidemic.
David J. Ley’s article is more concerned with typical liberal rhetoric than it is with understanding the reach and impact that this disaster is having on our society and our children.
This is not your father’s Playboy porn. This is rather the manifestation of absolute evil that is being unleashed against our most innocent and vulnerable children.
John McGuckin, Holmdel, NJ
Erin go abroad
I am the son of an Irish immigrant, and I find The Post’s article, “New Irish Exodu$ Rivals Days of Old,” (March 4) very informative.
I applaud New York’s Sen. Chuck Schumer for his introduction of the “Irish E-3 Visa Bill,” and I implore our elected senators to pass this bill.
It would allow the legal entry of 10,000 Irish people per year to live and work in the United States, and it would be quite a “thank you” to the Irish who have contributed so much to American society.
The Irish were greeted with “No Irish Need Apply” for jobs by nativists many years ago, but through hard work and deep religious beliefs they prospered.
Senators, please do not hang this sign once more on the doors of the Senate.
Noel Horkan, New Windsor
Hungry hypocrite
It surprises me how President Obama rails against the 1 percenters, yet it doesn’t bother him when those same people pay up to $35,800 a plate to listen to him give a speech in New York (“Spiritual Support for Prez,” March 1).
Barbara Shaw, Massapequa